early
美 [ˈɜrli]
英 [ˈɜː(r)li] 
- adv.提前;提早;在早期;在初期
- adj.早期的;初期的;早先的;早到的
- n.厄利
- 网络早的;早早地
词形变化
比较级:earlier 最高级:earliest 反义词
英汉双解
1. | 早期的;初期的;早先的near the beginning of a period of time, an event etc. |
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| my earliest memories 我最早的记忆 |
| The project is still in the early stages. 这个项目仍处于初期阶段。 |
| the early 1990s 20 世纪 90 年代初 |
| in the early days of space exploration(= when it was just beginning) 在太空探索初期 |
| The earliest possible date I can make it is the third. 我最早也要到三号才有时间。 |
| He's in his early twenties. 他二十出头。 |
| Mozart's early works(= those written at the beginning of his career) 莫扎特的早期作品 |
| Early booking is essential, as space is limited. 座位有限,务必早日预订。 |
2. | 早到的;提前的;提早的arriving, or done before the usual, expected or planned time |
| You're early! I wasn't expecting you till seven. 你来得真早!我还以为你七点钟才能到呢。 |
| The bus was ten minutes early. 公共汽车早到了十分钟。 |
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| Let's make an early start tomorrow. 咱们明天一早就出发吧。 |
| She's an early riser(= she gets up early in the morning) . 她是个习惯于早起的人。 |
| He learnt to play the piano at an early age . 他早年就学会了弹钢琴。 |
| early potatoes(= that are ready to eat at the beginning of the season) 早下来的土豆 |
1. | 在早期;在初期;在开始阶段near the beginning of a period of time, an event, a piece of work, etc. |
| early in the week/year/season/morning 一周开始时;年初;季度初;一大早 |
| The best rooms go to those who book earliest. 最早预订者可得最好的房间。 |
| We arrived early the next day. 我们第二天很早就到达了。 |
| He started writing music as early as 1989. 他早在 1989 年就开始作曲了。 |
2. | 提早;提前before the usual, expected or planned time |
| The bus came five minutes early. 公共汽车早到了五分钟。 |
| I woke up early this morning. 我今天早上醒得早。 |
| The baby arrived earlier than expected. 婴儿早产了。 |
3. | 先前;早些时候;…之前before the present time or the time mentioned |
| As I mentioned earlier… 正如我先前所提到的… |
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| She had seen him earlier in the day. 她在那天早些时候已见过他。 |
习惯用语
an early bird
早起者;早到者;赶早者;捷足先登者a person who gets up, arrives, etc. very early
at your earliest convenience
| Please telephone at your earliest convenience. 请尽早打电话。 |
the early bird catches the worm
捷足先登;捷足先得the person who takes the opportunity to do sth before other people will have an advantage over them
its early days (yet)
为时尚早;言之过早used to say that it is too soon to be sure how a situation will develop
early on
在初期;在开始阶段;早先at an early stage of a situation, relationship, period of time, etc.
| I knew quite early on that I wanted to marry her. 我老早就知道我想娶她。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
I got to bed early due to my tummy was sick, may be the tropical fruit mango cause me painful?
我很早上床睡觉,由于我肚子病了,可能是热带水果芒果,引起了我的痛苦吗?
Held in London in 1851, the Great Exhibition introduced new inventions like an early form of the fax machine and the voting machine.
在那次万国博览会上引介了早期的传真机和计票机等新发明。
In the early morning the sun threw my shadow westward as I hurried down the white chasms of lower New York to the Probity Trust.
每天清早太阳把我的影子投向西边时,我沿着纽约南部摩天大楼之间的白色裂口匆匆走向正诚信托公司。
The look got a boost from a hot TV show based in the early 1960s, which was one of the last periods for innovative tailored styles.
这部讲述上世纪60年代早期广告人生活的热门电视剧推动了这种装束的流行,而在服装剪裁风格得以创新的各个时代中,60年代是距离我们最近的年代之一。
It might have been that the early translators thought of love in terms of lovemaking, but over time the meaning became more vague.
早期的译者应该还是以“男女性爱”去理解“爱”这一词语,时光荏苒,这一意义渐渐变得模糊。
He told me that he often illusions themselves from an early age to encounter such a windfall uncle, however, has not encountered before.
他告诉我,他从小就经常幻想自己能遇到这样一个从天而降的叔叔,然而一直没有遇到过。
In the beginning you may see some huge oscillations, staying awake too late one night and going to bed too early another night.
起初,你会看到一些巨大的反差---一个晚上很晚睡觉而另一个晚上却很早就去睡觉。
Skeptics asked whether it was an early sign of a more activist administration or an isolated example.
怀疑论者称,这到底是一个较为激进政府的早期征兆,还是仅仅是个案特例。
He will have intensive treatment over the next couple of weeks but it is too early to say if he will be fit for the game against Everton.
未来两周他将接受集中治疗,但现在就断言他是否能在对埃弗顿的比赛前康复还为时过早。
He recalls Dury going "extremely weird" after his first album and as a manager in his early 20s trying to deal with it.
他回想起杜里在首张专辑发行后变得“非常奇怪”,而作为经理人、20岁出头的詹纳设法解决这个问题。
But most of the photos depict a woman who seems to be in her early twenties - which definitely is not the average age of any nationality.
但大多数照片都描绘的是20岁出头的女性,这绝非某个国家民众的平均年龄。
The scale of Mr Obama's victory gives him considerable scope to force through any policies he wants in the early years of his term.
奥巴马的获胜优势给予了他很大的空间,让他在任期头几年可以强行通过任何自己想实施的政策。
He added: "If you could prevent behavioural problems with an early intervention, in a public health-sense it could be very important. "
他补充道:“如果能够通过早期干预而预防行为问题的发生,从公共健康意义上来讲,是非常重要的。”
Watery diarrhoea is often present in the early stages of illness, and may precede respiratory symptoms by up to one week.
发病初期,往往会有水样腹泻,然后呼吸道症状可能持续一个星期。
Scientists stressed good diet was vital in a child's early life as the brain grows at its fastest rate during the first three years of life.
科学家强调说在儿童的早期生活中良好的饮食结构极其重要,因为在生命的头三年中,孩子的大脑发育得最快。
To the early Qing Dynasty, the distribution of irrigation channels in Ningxia Plain had been a dense web and almost perfect.
至清初,宁夏平原的灌溉渠道渐趋完善,其分布密如蛛网。
Residents of South Waziristan said the early morning missile strike hit the home of a Taliban commander outside the main town, Wana.
南瓦济里斯坦的居民说,清晨发射的导弹击中了主要城镇瓦纳郊外一名塔利班指挥官的房屋。
Because this fact was no recognized, the early magnetic prospecting for iron deposits was spectacularly unsuccessful.
由于不了解这个事实,因此早期为寻找铁矿进行磁法勘深,遭到了惊人的失败。
Symptomatic of this was the Ford Taurus, once America's bestselling car. By early 2000 it had been reduced to a little-loved rental vehicle.
其中一个标志性的事件就是曾经的公司销售之王福特金牛到了2000年初已然只能当没人爱的租赁车了。
Bill Koch had a long-standing feud with his brothers after his failed attempt to take over the company in the early 1980s.
20世纪80年代因为能争夺科赫公司管理权失败之后,比尔科赫与其兄长期不和。
Although a fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of the night was cloudless.
虽然那天深夜浓雾笼罩着整个城市,上半夜则晴空如洗。
Throughout her early years she had been an ugly duckling in the wrong nest, who was teased for being so different.
在这以前,她的生活就像一只住错了窝的丑小鸭,常常因与众不同而受到嘲笑。
The early travelers reported that the length of the day changed with what we call latitude.
早期的旅行家们有如下记载:一天的长短随我们所谓纬度的不同而不同。
Some of her early themes showed a certain originality.
她早期的有些题材显示她有某种独创才能。
The President's remarks seemed to be pointing at an early election.
总统的一席话似乎暗示竞选可能提前。
We thought one reason Eleanor was so health-conscious was that both her parents had died at an early age.
我们以为埃利诺之所以对健康问题如此敏感,原因之一是她的父母过早地离开了人间。
You would have no habits of early obedience and long observance to break through.
你没有早年服从和长期听话的习惯要加以打破啊。
The next early morning, he was under the necessity of making his report to the sitting magistrate of the day.
第二天清晨,他有必要向值班市政官提出报告。
In the early Christian churches, the small collection of scriptures and related books was kept to the left.
在早期的基督教堂里,少量的典籍及有关的图书被放置在教堂的左侧。
Whether this was Judith, relapsed into her early failing, or some other victim of the soldier's, Hawkeye never knew.
至于这个女人是否就是重蹈覆辙的尤蒂丝,还是这位军官手里的另一个牺牲品,神鹰眼始终不知道。
The coal consumption has declined since the early years of the twentieth century.
自20世纪的早些年起,煤的消耗就下降。
Two-and three-dimensional hydrodynamic computer codes have been applied to the study of the early phases of the collapse of a gas cloud.
二维和三维流体力学计算机程序,已用于研究气体云的早期坍缩。
It had become obvious from quite early in the Campaign that the Labour Party did not pose a serious threat to the Tories.
竞选初期,形势就相当明朗,工党对保守党构不成大的威胁。
She was not an established writer, though some of her early themes showed a certain originality.
她那时还不是成名的作家,尽管她早期有些题材已经显示了她有某种独创才能。
It takes the question of the early history of the universe out of the realm of speculation and into the realm of measurement.
它把宇宙早期历史这一问题由空想领域带入实测领域。
Expressionism, as a label, can be applied to paintings from the early years of the century right up to the 1950s.
表现主义作为一种标签,适用于从本世纪初至五十年代的绘画。
Lydia was a favourite with her mother, whose affection had brought her into public at an early age.
丽迪雅是她母亲的掌上明珠,由于娇纵过度她很小就进入了社交界。
Some of the early results of these new methods have been included, and many more will surely appear in future editions.
有关这些新方法的某些初步成果已得到反映,预计在今后几版内会得到更多的反映。
It was neither too early for actors, nor yet too late to have lost one of such charm and fame, she had calculated.
她考虑过,现在对演员来说既不会太早,对她来说也不会太迟使她错过这么一个仪表堂堂、大名鼎鼎的人物。
Early in January, with a few other officers in War Plans, he had begun "conversation" with British military men.
一月初,他和军事计划处的其他几个军官一道开始跟英国军事人员“对话”。
The welfare of the family, from food and clothing to nursing and early education of the children was entirely managed at home.
家庭福利,包括吃、穿、哺育婴儿直到孩子们的早期教育全部是在家庭内进行的。
In early 1961 Washington began to hear increasing reports of unrest on the island.
一九六一年初,华盛顿又开始听到关于该岛日益动荡不安的消息。
She had, in consequence of her sister's marriage, been mistress of her house from a very early period.
由于姐姐出嫁,她很早就当了家里的女主人。
Some of these early steps in the development of life may have taken place in interstellar gas clouds before the solar system formed.
生命发展的某些早期过程可能早在太阳系形成以前的星际气体云中就已发生。
This reduction might with reason have been interpreted as a sign of his early disappearance from the military scene.
此种减缩,可能被解释为他即将在军事上遭受淘汰的象征。
All my life the early sun has hurt my eyes, he thought.
他想:初出的太阳把我的眼睛刺痛了一辈子。
The doctor had on hand a stock of unexpended authority, by which the child, in its early years, profited largely.
医生当时还有许多优越的条件,凭借这些条件,小女孩早年受益不小。
Deacon Euphrates had been assigned to be early in the line and the first to open an account.
派给迪肯·尤弗雷茨的角色是在队里打头阵,银行一开门第一个进去开立帐户。
It was too early to tell whether the Israelis could sustain themselves on the west side of the Canal.
目前还不能断定以色列是否能够在运河西岸坚持下去。
In early November, the drug firm's director of research collapsed over a microscope and died of a massive cerebral haemorrhage.
11月初,该医药公司的研究部主任突然在显微镜前倒了下去,由于严重脑溢血而死亡。
Planning as early as you can for your future, and making all finance ready is just the beginning of a happiness life.
早早为将来做打算,为未来生活提前作好财务安排才是幸福人生的开始。
This was to be hei last evening alone as Jeff, her former mater, would be returning Zac to her early in the moring.
这是她在家独处的最后一个晚上,因为她的前夫杰夫会在早上把扎克送回来。
Let early education be a sort of a amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
初期教育应是一种娱乐,这样才更容易发现一个人天生的爱好。
A daughter agrees to go to bed early if her mother lets her dress up in her old gowns.
女儿答应早早上床,只要她能穿穿母亲的旧日华服。
He was an early proponent of the theory that life on Earth may have come from Mars in rocks ejected by asteroid and comet impacts.
他是这项理论早期的支持者:地球生命也许来自火星,通过小行星和彗星冲撞而由岩石喷射而出。
The children must be taught at an early age that this is South Africa's game.
孩子们必须在早年接受教育,让他们知道这是南非的运动。
To tell the truth, it was not the best time to come, and best times the end of June or early September.
说实话现在并不是来布拉格最好的时候,六月底和九月初才是这里气候最为宜人的季节。
So I shall try to make it a habit of swallowing my frogs early in the day.
这样看来,我应该试着把早点吞掉我的青蛙养成一种习惯。
The man, who appeared to be in his early twenties, then took off his heavy shoe and threw it at the stage missing the Premier by a few feet.
这位看上去大约二十多岁的男子随后脱下他有些重的鞋朝台上扔去,砸在了离温总理约数尺远的地上。
Opponents of the state's governor, Scott Walker, are hoping to put him to a recall vote early next year.
该州州长斯科特•沃克的竞争对手都希望把他的罢免投票放在明年的早些时候。
Trying to get a head start by pushing early academics can backfire, causing difficulties for years to come.
试图提前开始学习文化课程,以求领先一步,会事与愿违,给将来造成障碍。
In the early part of the season when he was on the wing, I thought his combination play and understanding of the position was excellent.
在赛季之初,他在边路,我认为他的团队配合和位置感理解都很好。
For that reason alone, I encourage you to set up your code statically and let users know early on about possible problems.
因此,我建议编写静态的代码,让用户尽可能早地发现问题。
The belief was that by "hitting it early and hard, " treatments could push HIV all the way out of the body.
这个信仰的理论是,“早攻击,并要用大量的药”,药物可以把HIV排出体外。
Moreover, my wife was at the early stage of pregnancy and she felt weak and rather uncomfortable. Hence, we did not plan for a banquet.
另外当时我太太正直怀孕初期,身体非常不适和虚弱,所以我们不打算办婚宴。
Still, it is clear that this is the early stage of adoption when many cell owners do not know what their phone can do.
不过,很显然这依然是这一趋势的初期,因为许多手机用户不知道他们的手机能做些什么。
Sultry autumn, ready to enjoy the early autumn night, you and I, bright, think Italy is strong!
秋意撩人,愿在初秋的夜晚你我享,皓月当空,思意正浓!
His early training, which is still with him, featured an enhancement of his ability to absorb written information.
他早期的训练-当然现在还在进行-对于加强他(急速)吸收(理解)书面信息的能力起了重要作用。
The project is still in its early stages (authentication is expected to be added in an upcoming version), but it's fun to watch it develop.
项目仍然处在早期阶段(今后的版本将增加身份验证),但是值得关注其进展。
If he's a man of his word: Will he really keep those promises he made to you early on?
他会不会说一套做一套?:他会兑现他早些时候对你做出的承诺么?
He had early in the war driven off from the shores of Dakar an attempted invasion by British and Free French forces.
他在早期战争中,曾在达卡尔海岸逐退英国及自由法国部队之入侵。
It's limited, normally, to the early months of pregnancy and before long will go away, leaving nothing harmful behind.
它一般只限制在怀孕初期的几个月,不久就会自行消失,不会留下任何病症。
His early productions as a writer made him famous all the world over.
他的早期作品使他举世闻名。
As early as the fifth century B. C, Parmenides of Elea declared that the earth was a sphere.
早在公元前五世纪,E·帕尔梅尼泽就宣布地球是球形体。
Quantum mechanics, which evolved in the early nineteen-twenties, had its initial thrust in the area of atomic physics.
本世纪20年代初期发展起来的量子力学,其最初取得的突破是在原子物理学的领域中。
She agreed to let me go early.
她同意让我早走。
Members were recruited at an early age and molded in a way that marked their personalities for life.
成员在很年轻的时候就被招收到企业中去,训练的方式塑造了他们一生的个性。
Certainly, the early years are crucial to a child's development.
毫无疑问,幼年对儿童的成长至关重要。
Thus it came about that the forward motion of progressivism came to a halt in the early uncertain months of 1939.
这样,在一九三九年不稳定的头几个月,进步运动的前进步伐停止了。
The war had developed the technology and created a group of people trained to use the complicated early receiving sets.
战争发展了技术,也造就了一批经过训练能使用早期那种复杂的接收机的人员。